Gold Heart Lockets

A gold heart locket is a special form of jewelry - one to be treasured, both for its inherent beauty, and for its deep meaning of love or rememberance.

Declare your love on Valentine's Day, an anniversary, birthday, Christmas, or any day, with a gold heart locket. Gold heart lockets are an obvious choice for a sweetheart gift, but they are appropriate for other ladies, and on other occasions, too.

Gold heart lockets are appropriate special occasion gifts for young daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, or close female friends in addition to a fiance. They speak of many kinds of love, and may be used to say "I am in love with you," but can also simply say, "You are loved."

Most lockets are made to hold a memento inside, usually a small photo or two, but some are specially designed to hold a lock of hair. The latter have long been used as a special remembrance.

A heart shaped locket is extra special because it also conveys the message, "You will always have a special place in my heart."

Gold Symbolizes the Warmth and Power of the Sun

Golden Sunrise

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The Symbolism of Gold

Throughout the ages, gold, especially yellow gold, has been thought to represent the warmth and power of the sun.

So, it is only natural that gold was, and still is, worn as a symbol of status, wealth and power.

More than that, however, gold represents the warmth and power of the sun.

It is thought by some to bring spiritual awakening to a receptive wearer.

However, I think a lot of us just appreciate its lasting beauty. After all, as everyone knows, gold doesn't rust or tarnish. So, for many ladies, to receive a gift of gold is also like receiving a tangible symbol of a love that promises to last, whether it's the love of a sweetheart, a spouse, a parent or a child.

White and Rose Gold

Are Produced by Alloying Gold with Other Metals

If pure gold is yellow or golden colored, then how are those lovely white and rose golds produced ?

By alloying (or combining) gold with other metals, the color of the gold is changed to produce white gold and rose gold, and even other colored golds.

For example:

Gold + copper produces rose gold

Gold + silver + palladium produces white gold

There are actually other alloys that product different colors of gold, but those colors are not as commonly used in jewelry making as are rose and white gold. Some of them are red, green, gray, blue, and purple.

Comments

CruiseReady, Jewelry that combines all the different golds end up as my favorites even though the rose locket is super-attractive here. I never can look or read about lockets without thinking of the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt!